# Has a Thorium Powered Nuclear Reactor Ever Been Built?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [December 28, 2007, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-a-thorium-powered-nuclear-reactor-ever-been-built/431426 "2007-12-28T00:57:28Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 15, 2011, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-a-thorium-powered-nuclear-reactor-ever-been-built/431426/21 "2011-06-15T22:03:15Z")

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There was actually a working Thorium reactor in Germany in the 80s.

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/THTR-300](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/THTR-300)

You can find out anything you want to know about Thorium based reactors at Kirk Sorenson’s web site: [http://energyfromthorium.com/](http://energyfromthorium.com/)

If you look at the video links on the right, you will notice that Google has brought him in several times to give talks.

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